Cat Prison Poems

You spend all the day sneaking about
but you'll pay for each rule you now flout

You can bet that sweet tail,
you're the next cat to jail

and...

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Inside this cell no sell, just a bag of spiders big and fat 
with gnarly hands she tucks away fifty crawlies in her hat
Her name...

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I got my mind on my money and money on my mind/
Cat scan if you like you'll tell I ain't lying/
Verse One
Money is all I...

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I don’t see the point anymore to any of this 
After all, what’s popular today
will be passé in what seems 
the blink of an eye,...

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Mice scurry in senseless circles 
Inside the yawning feed trough
Where they’ve entered, finding
They’re trapped without a exit

They hurry, making haste in fussing
Noiseless and anxiously contemplating
Their...

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The feast was all done,
For Grinch and the Who’s,
 And after the meal,
Came terrible news.

For Max and the Grinch,
And Who’s gathered round,
No one spoke a...

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The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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From day one he was trouble
His parents knew on sight
Their bundle of pure joy and bliss
Was somehow, just not right

It wasn't in his nature
To be...

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